After kernel 2.6.5-1 install, cursor&printing lost, reboot hangs after upgrade...

From: Adam Felix Bogacki (afb_at_paradise.net.nz)
Date: 05/02/04

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    Hi, attempting to installing MPlayer, I found had no audio with the
    2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel.
    I apt-installed the 2.4.25-1-686 kernel, headers, and alsa-modules but
    was ultimately informed
    on alsa-users that my kernel/modules were 'foobar' . Kernel 2.6 .5-1-686
    includes alsa-modules so I tried that.

    On first reboot, I found that OO0 1.1 and AbiWord would not print but
    that MPlayer had good audio and video, when it worked. On subsequent
    reboots, the cursor was frozen in the center of screen following login
    but I could use command-line functions in unconfigured windows,
    including mutt and MPlayer. I tried a number of 'apt-get updates' and
    'apt-get dist-upgrades --fix-missing' in the hope that appropriate
    package downloads would fix the cursor and problems.

    The last 'dist-upgrade --fix-missing' included an upgrade of
    'kernel-image-2.6.5-1-686' and the
    install of a 'libmouse' package, but then came a message that modules
    needed to be re-generated during boot, and that I needed to 'reboot soon'.

    On rebooting however, I get the message "Loading Linux .........." and
    then the screen hangs.

    I can access the system on a 2.25 kernel rescue disk, but which does not
    have net access.

    I'd like to fix this problem so I can get on with the rest of my life.

    Any constructive ideas ?

    Adam Bogacki,
    afb@paradise.net.nz 

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